WhiteHouse.gov now runs Drupal. What took it so long?
There's a lot of buzz today on the Obama Administration's decision to run WhiteHouse.gov on Drupal, the popular open-source Web publishing system. Given the U.S. federal government's widespread adoption of open source, however, the amazing thing is that it took so long.
After all, other areas of the U.S. federal government have been involved with open source for years. From the Department of Defense to the Small Business Administration to the OSHA, U.S. federal adoption of open source is remarkably strong.It is now, anyway. This is a big shift in the federal … Read more